From: ibshambat@gmail.com   
      
   It appears that in America there is a strong new movement that calls itself   
   alt-right. According to them, black people are lazy and violent, Jews are evil   
   manipulators, and Muslims are terrorists.   
      
   I ask these people: Where would America be without Michael Jordan, Eddie   
   Murphy and Colin Powell? I ask these people: Where would America be without   
   Albert Einstein, Mark Spitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Henry Kissinger, Adam Sandler,   
   Steven Spielberg and Ayn    
   Rand? I ask these people: Where would they as former Tea Party be without the   
   Koch brothers? All these people contribute a lot to America. And they   
   contribute much more than they would if they had simply assimilated into the   
   WASP culture, as some people    
   say that they should.   
      
   Every culture has something wrong with it. That includes the White Anglo Saxon   
   Protestant American. Now there are many things that are right with that   
   culture, and they have the right to affirm these virtues. The stress on   
   character, hard work, strength    
   and ethics is right. The biggest problem with this culture is emotional   
   repression. Apparently feelings are for the weak and the stupid, and anyone   
   showing feelings is trampled down. For people who do such a thing, the   
   greatest nightmare is a feelings-   
   oriented person with a brain, as many Jews are. They are a nightmare for two   
   main reasons. One is that they cannot be credibly portrayed as stupid and thus   
   form a refutation by counterexample of this falsehood in their worldview. And   
   the other is that    
   they have the wits to be able to help other feelings-oriented people whom they   
   want to trample down. So portray them as evil manipulators or dangerous   
   individuals. Brand them with untreatabled disorders. Or claim that their whole   
   culture is evil.   
      
   Regarding the black people, I am close to a number of black ladies who   
   experienced domestic violence, and from what I have heard from them I feel   
   like punching the men who had treated them that way in the face. However this   
   is not limited to black people,   
    and I feel the same way about a number of people who are Muslim, Russian,   
   Australian and the American WASP. That some black people are lazy and violent   
   is certainly correct. However there are any number of others who are no such   
   thing. It is correct to    
   go after the guilty; but do not stick these labels on the innocent. I have   
   seen a number of good efforts that the black people are doing to improve the   
   behavior of people in their community, and these efforts deserve respect. Yes   
   there are stupid    
   hoodlums who are black. But there are also many black people who are admirable   
   individuals, and they do not deserve to be blamed for the sins of the hoodlums.   
      
   One thing they are right about is that political correctness is wrong. Yes, it   
   is completely wrong. Not only does it fail to achieve its stated goals of   
   tolerance and respect, but it makes them impossible. For me to actually   
   tolerate or respect you I    
   must understand your perspective. For me to do so you must be able to express   
   your honest opinion, however offensive it may be. If you cannot express your   
   honest opinion because someone considers it offensive, I will never understand   
   your actual    
   perspective, which means that I will not know whether or not to extend to you   
   actual tolerance and respect.   
      
   Maybe the WASP culture has been criticized too much, and it may be valid that   
   it should remind people of the positives in it, of which once again there are   
   many. However do not in the process bring back features that are wrong. Do not   
   bring back    
   emotional repression. Do not bring back coldness. Do not bring back meanness   
   and cruelty. If you do that, it will always be only a matter of time before   
   something like 1960s happens again.   
      
   So yes, celebrate the things that you are right about and that are right in   
   your character. But do not portray as evil or lazy or violent or whatever   
   people who are none of these things and many of whom are strongly contributing   
   citizens. America    
   benefits from many black people and many Jews. And it is rightful that these   
   people be properly credited for the work that they are doing for America.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)